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We have a gigabit Bay Area Comcast connection for $89/month (gigabit down/35mbps up) and downloading an Xbox One game (50-90GB) while wired directly into the sw

• Nextgrid 7y ago
  That upload speed is just ridiculous. With pretty much everyone pushing cloud storage & services, upload speeds are important too. I’d take a symmetric 100/100 connection over 1000/35 any day.
  • mshook 7y ago
    Exactly, having a 1000/400 Mb (roughly, can't complain for 49€) at home not only helps to download stuff as plenty others mentioned but it also created new opportunities. I have roughly a half a gigabyte of pictures (digital and digitized from films). Before having fiber, it wasn't doable to do backup in the cloud. But now it's just a piece of cake and it doesn't take that long either.
• rhino369 7y ago
  Back when I had gigabit, it seemed like Xbox servers were by far the limiting factor in Xbox One downloads (either that or the peering between Verizon and MS servers). I'd rarely get over 100mbps, though I could saturate a usenet server connection pretty close to 1000mbps. When I moved, I downgraded to 300mbps down, and I haven't notice any practical difference. Hell, for 3 months my download was artificially limited to 30mbps down (don't ask me why) and I really only noticed the issue when uptaking Xbox games. Everything else felt fine.
  • fossuser 7y ago
    Another piece of this is roommates (Bay Area) and concurrent network use - this helps make it more worth it.